Exxon-backed Fraser Institute readies attack on IPCC

By Richard Littlemore

onJan 30, 2007 @ 08:40 PST

The Fraser Institute, which has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil over the last three years, has issued a media advisory promising to release “an independent summary of the latest United Nations (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on climate” on February 5, 2007.

The FI advisory derides the IPCC report as “a brief document produced through negotiation by government bureaucrats. It is neither written by nor reviewed by the scientific community and has been criticized for its promotional tone and failure to adequately communicate the complexity and uncertainty of the underlying science around climate change.”

The Fraser Institute report’s lead author is Canadian economist Dr. Ross McKitrick, best known for his attack on the now-famous “hockey stick ” graph by Michael Mann, et al.

The DeSmogBlog will follow later in the day with more background on McKitrick and Fraser Institute’s other “climate experts” involved in this anti-IPCC report.

By Richard Littlemore

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